Japan Gaming Guide

USB keyboards are near must-have accessories for gamers these days. With everything from the Wii browser to Xbox live messenger integration asking for regular text input, using a joypad to slowly select key after key can eat loads of your time. If you want something game themed you could go for this – a space invaders keyboard. Speed and convenience without making your game area look too PC like.

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Games Radar just posted a great article on videogame systems of the ’70s. All the old favourites are in there, Atari, Intellivision, Magnavox and there’s a load of stuff we’d never seen before. Pictured above is the Telstar Arcade which shipped with a neat gun – fun for all the family!

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Wonderland is a great site to check for cute game items, and they recently posted a gamecraft bonanza. Items include the DS lite pouch pictured above and cute items based on Mario, Star Wars, Portal and more.

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Square Enix are releasing some cool FFXI jewellery. Pictured is the Y4500 tidal talisman.

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The guys at Siliconera spotted this on Japanese TV:

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Some enterprising people (sorry) built themselves a phaser out of a PS3 Blu-ray diode:

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This is amazingly cool. Remember kids, you’ve never had it so good!

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Someone built a giant Super Mario made of cans. It’s for charity, and it’s Mario, so you gotta love it.

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There is perhaps no better use for that Y100 coin you have cluttering up your pocket than the gashapon pod. These things are everywhere in Japan, they’re found around shops of all kinds. They branded cheap stuff based on whatever happens to be popular with the kids at the time. It’s mostly kids that use them, although aging video game bloggers are sometimes seen guiltily dropping coins in when no-one is around. The stuff you get out of them is chosen from a range at random. At Chimptron central we have a lovely Bomberman DS stylus, and a Princess Peach mini case. There’s been a recent trend for putting the pods is salaryman friendly locations too. We love them and will continue to waste our money on them as long as we can afford to eat.

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This is the second greatest scarf we’ve ever seen, after Tom Baker’s in Dr. Who. Since he was a timelord, this is still the best scarf in human history. It took a whole year to knit! If the creater has another year to spare, we’d really really love one!

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